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Relation Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America.*
language to a Frenchman , who interpreted them to the Indians . They consisted merely of old letters which Campbell had in his _ pocket when killed , and some communications sent to him by his friends at . 1-ort Detroit by the hands of a Frenchman , who had kept them up . 1 nere were in the hall , besides the Indians , several French settlers present ancl tbe object of both was to ascertain from these papers if peace had been reallproclaimed between land and France . I he b renchmen
y Eng would not believe that their king would so easily cede Canada to the English , as had been reported . Though peace had been published by Mai or Gladwin long before this time , the French inhabitants of Canada tried to persuade the Indians not to believe it , m hopes of prolonging the war with the English , and of being yet able to drive them out Nothing in the letters transpired , as I thought , to _ favour their but they contrived to keep the Indians still m doubt . 1
designs received their thanks , however , for discharging the duties of interpreter , and was allowed then to return home with Peewash , who said he was g lad to have got me off so well . ( To be continued . )
Extraordinary Death Of The American Sea-Serpent.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF THE AMERICAN SEA-SERPENT .
"W EI i . as I said before , " continued Barney O'Bother to his wife , who was seated by his side over a skillet of potatoes , immediately above which hung a red herring they both appeared to devour in imagination , while they m reality caused the contents of the pot to vanish down their throats with inconceivable swiftness , " as I said before , avourneen , Paddy Murphy was as good a fisherman as iver threw a net , and as stout ancl clever fellow iver shook a shilelah at wake or christening ,
as a as and a "ood Catholic to boot ! Well , poor Paddy tuk himself off one fine summer morning to seek his fortune upon the broad seas , in a ship bound to a friend of his—one Phillip Delphi , I think he called him m AMERICA . ' Good by to ye , ' says he to me , taking my hand and shaking it till he put my shoulder out of joint ; < and good luck to you says I , < riving him a squaze that made his fist as soft as a roasted apple ; and Swav he wint Well , I saw no more of him for many a long day ; but backhe tould all about his toAmerica
when he did come , me voyage _ , ancl how he got there ; and if you were to guess from tins time to the day of iudgeniint , yed niver hit upon the way he thravelled . / Well savs he tS me , ' Barney , ' says he , ' when we had run about a hundred leagues from ould Ireland , wid a spanking breeze in our starn lira Tackle the boatswain ' s mate , roared out a thousand murders ! _ Hubbaboo , ' says the captain , ' what ' s the row ? ' ' Blood and ounds , cried the American Sea Sarpmt m raal earnest
Pat Murphy , 'but here ' s Ancl sure enough there the captain saw it wid his own eyes , for the head of it was claan over the ship ' s bows , and the tail was tickling the rudder into fits , all at the same time . The poor captain s teeth began to play marrow-bones and cleavers you may be sure , and chvil a soul aboord the shin but ducked under the hatches , except the steersman ; and he had as stout a heart as Paddy . ' Be aisy , be aisy , now , says Pat to the captain ' and don ' t be so frightened , for I m going to show ye the way to get VOL . III . ''
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Relation Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America.*
language to a Frenchman , who interpreted them to the Indians . They consisted merely of old letters which Campbell had in his _ pocket when killed , and some communications sent to him by his friends at . 1-ort Detroit by the hands of a Frenchman , who had kept them up . 1 nere were in the hall , besides the Indians , several French settlers present ancl tbe object of both was to ascertain from these papers if peace had been reallproclaimed between land and France . I he b renchmen
y Eng would not believe that their king would so easily cede Canada to the English , as had been reported . Though peace had been published by Mai or Gladwin long before this time , the French inhabitants of Canada tried to persuade the Indians not to believe it , m hopes of prolonging the war with the English , and of being yet able to drive them out Nothing in the letters transpired , as I thought , to _ favour their but they contrived to keep the Indians still m doubt . 1
designs received their thanks , however , for discharging the duties of interpreter , and was allowed then to return home with Peewash , who said he was g lad to have got me off so well . ( To be continued . )
Extraordinary Death Of The American Sea-Serpent.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF THE AMERICAN SEA-SERPENT .
"W EI i . as I said before , " continued Barney O'Bother to his wife , who was seated by his side over a skillet of potatoes , immediately above which hung a red herring they both appeared to devour in imagination , while they m reality caused the contents of the pot to vanish down their throats with inconceivable swiftness , " as I said before , avourneen , Paddy Murphy was as good a fisherman as iver threw a net , and as stout ancl clever fellow iver shook a shilelah at wake or christening ,
as a as and a "ood Catholic to boot ! Well , poor Paddy tuk himself off one fine summer morning to seek his fortune upon the broad seas , in a ship bound to a friend of his—one Phillip Delphi , I think he called him m AMERICA . ' Good by to ye , ' says he to me , taking my hand and shaking it till he put my shoulder out of joint ; < and good luck to you says I , < riving him a squaze that made his fist as soft as a roasted apple ; and Swav he wint Well , I saw no more of him for many a long day ; but backhe tould all about his toAmerica
when he did come , me voyage _ , ancl how he got there ; and if you were to guess from tins time to the day of iudgeniint , yed niver hit upon the way he thravelled . / Well savs he tS me , ' Barney , ' says he , ' when we had run about a hundred leagues from ould Ireland , wid a spanking breeze in our starn lira Tackle the boatswain ' s mate , roared out a thousand murders ! _ Hubbaboo , ' says the captain , ' what ' s the row ? ' ' Blood and ounds , cried the American Sea Sarpmt m raal earnest
Pat Murphy , 'but here ' s Ancl sure enough there the captain saw it wid his own eyes , for the head of it was claan over the ship ' s bows , and the tail was tickling the rudder into fits , all at the same time . The poor captain s teeth began to play marrow-bones and cleavers you may be sure , and chvil a soul aboord the shin but ducked under the hatches , except the steersman ; and he had as stout a heart as Paddy . ' Be aisy , be aisy , now , says Pat to the captain ' and don ' t be so frightened , for I m going to show ye the way to get VOL . III . ''